Quotes from Steve Hamilton

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.

Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.

Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.

Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.

So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I'd take with me and never forget. The whole legal system – if you think it's just a big set of rules, you're dead wrong. It's really a bunch of people sitting around and talking to each other, deciding what they want to do with you. When they make their decision, then they pull out whatever rule they need to make it happen.

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart.

I've noticed how most people don't know how to listen.

I felt like hell the next morning. My hands were sore, my arms were sore, my legs were sore, and my back was sore. Aside from that I was fine.

You touch a safe the way you touch a woman," he

understand our situation.

said. "Now that he's found me again. Or he'd come himself. . . ." "Maria, why don't you just sign away the full partnership money? Tell him you'll take the twenty percent and forfeit the rest?" She looked at me. "You could stop running," I said. "I don't know," she said. "Maybe

It's not nearly far enough if you've already become famous for something you want to forget forever.

Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I

These are the methods of crude men. They can't face the challenge that a safe presents to them. They can't face the safe on its own terms. So they do what? Same thing men have been doing for thousands of years, right? They resort to violence." He grabbed the dolly and tucked it under the safe. "No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It's the only way they know.

I'll out-quiet anybody, in any venue for any stakes.

You couldn't have ironed her voice any flatter.

Halliday put up his hand to stop him. He'd been taught long ago to trust his own instincts, the same instincts that went all the way back to the brief time in his career when he'd worked with the agents who had invented a new way to track serial killers. These agents studied them; they interviewed them; they took them through every case, going over every detail. They got inside their heads, even if that was the last place you'd ever want to be.

Unless you're a hairdresser, you can't have a ponytail and call yourself Kenny when you're forty. Not in Michigan, anyway.

He sounded like the king of guy who gets mad for a living.

He sounded like the kind of guy who gets mad for a living.

This isn't freedom. This is mobility. Don't get those two things confused.